I think Quarrel has aspects of both of the two types you mention, but honestly, while the issue is mainly Microsoft’s (especially in that some utterly benign words are on the blacklist), there’s some fault with Denki also. The game should not request an anagram with the sole solution of SEXUALLY if it can check against the blacklist and see that it’s not a word I’m allowed to transmit.

I was a little reluctant to review Quarrel here for this reason. If it helps, I view our role here as being to suggest games that we think are worth buying at the price at which they’re available, and I definitely think that Quarrel’s 400 MSP standard price is rather worth it.

Then I’d suggest you not bother reading the reviews. Or even go to this page rather than the homepage:
http://savygamer.co.uk/category/deals/

Edit: In fact, I don’t know how long you’ve been using SavyGamer, but I used to do quite a lot of reviews. The main reason I don’t any more is because I’m too busy writing for other places that pay me. Will asked if he could do a review of Quarrel, because he wanted to, and I was more than happy to let him.

It’s important to realise there are 2 types of word games tho – those which exercise your vocabulary (Quarrel and Scrabble) and those which test your ability to find predefined words (Text Twist, Word Search).

With the former, your wordlist can (and should) contain every possible word – including obscene words and slang – because if someone enters it then they clearly know what it means.

With the latter it’s wise to remove offensive and slang words because you’re forcing people into finding them – even if they don’t know what they mean – and no-one will actually miss them if they’re not included.

So Quarrel would be crippled by Microsoft’s prudish approach to it for sure – in fact I’d not have bothered publishing the game on a platform when the publisher was going to ruin it for no appreciably good reason.